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YOU MUST LIKE CRICKET?

Bhattacharya Soumya

Oprawa:
MIĘKKA

Wydawca:
Random House

Data premiery:
2006-07-20

ISBN:
9780224075213

81,90 PLN
Wysyłamy w 21 dni

Opis produktu

Soumya Bhattacharya grew up in London and Kolkata. His criticism and essays have been published in the New York Times the Sydney Morning Herald Wisden New Statesman the Guardian and the Observer. He is currently an editor on the Hindustan Times. This is his first book. He lives in Mumbai.The great C L R James once asked: What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? For some of us answering that can keep you awake at night.Soumya Bhattacharya knows this: he has a steady job a loving wife a daughter he dotes on. But most of all he has cricket. Or perhaps more accurately: cricket has him. Ever since he can remember hes loved the game. From his first knockabouts on the livingroom carpet with his mothers paper bats and balls he progressed to Test Match Special on shortwave then to the whole panoply of obsession: onedayers Test matches TV highlights reruns of TV highlights always following one team India. When you come from a country where the game is more than a religion you must like cricket right?In this sparkling memoir of a lifetime spent in the company of eleven men a green field and a billion other worshippers Soumya Bhattacharya gives us a guided tour of the soul of a cricket obsessive. Part reportage part travelogue part cultural politics You Must Like Cricket? takes us from his home in Kolkata to Lords and back again as Bhattacharya explores the joys and the lows (mostly the lows) of a thirtyyear love affair how one game has become so closely tied to a nations identity and the troubling hold cricket has over him. But if your home ground was called Eden Gardens where else would you rather be?The touching funny story of how cricket took over a country and one mans soul.Bhattacharya in his light and fluent prose dances round and round his obsessionhighly entertainingA fascinating analysis of Indias progress and development over the last 20 years seen through the microscope of cricketAn affectionate account of watching cricket and a bid to explain its cultural significance in IndiaAn intimate often wry account of 30 years of following a team

Data Publikacji: 2006-07-20
Wymiary: 215 mm 135 mm 16 mm 230 gr

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